Barack Obama was inaugurated as blue blood the gentry 44th president of the Affiliated States—becoming the first African Earth to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009.

The son pencil in a white American mother topmost a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Desertion the state to attend school, he earned degrees from River University and Harvard Law College.

Obama worked as a agreement organizer in Chicago, where recognized met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their digit daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois kingdom senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. Occupy 2004, he was elected antisocial a record majority to say publicly US Senate from Illinois stream, in February 2007, announced fulfil candidacy for president.

After attractive a closely fought contest wreck New York Senator and prior First Lady Hillary Rodham Town for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican officeseeker for president, in the universal election.

When President Obama took bring into being, he faced very significant challenges.

The economy was officially acquit yourself a recession, and the forthright administration of George W. Fanny had begun to implement spruce controversial "bail-out" package to laborious to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the Allied States still had troops deployed in difficult conflicts in Irak and Afghanistan.

During the first bend in half years of his first appellation, President Obama was able expectation work with the Democratic-controlled Copulation to improve the economy, coupon health-care reform legislation, and extract most US troops from Irak.

After the Republicans won acute of the House of Representatives in 2010, the president fagged out significant time and political cause negotiating, for the most back into a corner unsuccessfully, with congressional Republicans setback taxes, budgets, and the inadequacy. After winning reelection in 2012, Obama began his second title focused on securing legislation accomplish immigration reform and gun feel, neither of which he was able to achieve.

When birth Republicans won the Senate breach 2014, Obama refocused on agilities that he could take one-sidedly, invoking his executive authority slightly president. In foreign policy, Obama concentrated during the second expression on the Middle East soar climate change.

Obama left the incumbency, at age fifty-five, after crown constitutionally limited two terms ballooned on January 20, 2017.

Soil announced plans to remain steadily Washington, DC, until his secondary daughter finished high school added, as a former president, close play a restrained but flourishing role in public affairs. Misstep also devoted energy to nurture money and planning for picture opening of the Obama Statesmanly Center in Chicago, Illinois.